How do young children learn to have good values? How can parents teach their children about the importance of kindness and patience? At a time when more and more parents worry about the violent images(暴力形象) their children see on TV, some are turning to fairy tales(童话).
It is believed that fairy tales have a great influence on children because they describe the two sides of good and evil(邪恶) very clearly. When children hear the stories, they learn to care about others’ feelings. In each tale, they can see that there are many different kinds of people in the world and that we all have a choice about what kind of person we want to be. We can choose to do good actions, rather than bad ones, in our lives.
What kind of values can children learn from fairy tales? In The Princess and the Pea(《豌豆公主》), a poorly dressed girl, who insists she is a princess, is given a difficult test by the Queen. When she passes the test, we learn that her dream comes true because she stays true to herself. In The Little Mermaid(《小美人鱼》), the mermaid, who lives under the sea, wishes to be with the humans on land. Through her experiences, we learn about the importance of living with and accepting other cultures. In Pinocchio, a wooden puppet(木偶) turns into a boy when he finally learns how to tell the truth.
Teaching values is the reason most often given for encouraging children to read stories. These fairy tales can teach children lessons about human relationships that are accepted around the world for many countries. This might be the reason why they have been around for so long and will not disappear any more soon.
1. Why do fairy tales have a great influence on children?| A．Fairy tales can teach them how to make a choice. |
| B．Fairy tales can help them get higher scores at school. |
| C．They can learn how to avoid most difficulties in their lives. |
| D．Good and evil are shown in a way they can easily understand. |
| A．are given a difficult test | B．make friends with foreigners |
| C．wish to be a princess or prince | D．are going to lie to their parents |
| A．introduce some fairy tales |
| B．talk about the history of fairy tales |
| C．discuss how to improve human relationships |
| D．show how fairy tales help children shape values |
相似题推荐
【推荐1】Some children are born loving books, reading, and anything about literature. Then there are children who’d rather climb trees, ride a bike, and run around the house.
Make going to the bookstore more entertaining than a trip to the toy store. Never buy toys while your children is around the toy store.
Read your children’s favorite books and discuss these books with them. One of the best ways to show children the importance of reading is to spend time reading their favorite books with them. Children love to chat about their favorite characters and scenes.
Keep reading simple books. The majority of parents may ignore this point. This is hard when children are first reading because we want to push them forward, but easy books make little children happy, especially books with lots of pictures.
| A．Join in every reading competition available. |
| B．Find relevant books that your child is interested in. |
| C．The last thing they are willing to do is quietly reading. |
| D．Encourage your child to frequently read classic books. |
| E．Instead, buy your child a book when you visit the bookstore. |
| F．They hope you understand exactly what they know about the books. |
| G．It’s one of the main advantage comic books (连环画) have over regular books. |
【推荐2】Opening a good book can take you on an adventure — but sometimes, it’s not what’s on the pages, but what’s been left in them, that’s the most exciting. Sharon McKellar, a librarian at the Oakland Public Library, has been collecting forgotten mementos (纪念品) left in library books. Now, she’s finally found a use for all the old family photos, notes, recipes and concert tickets she’s collected over the years.
McKellar started the “Found in a Library Book” project — an online database of all the things found in books at the library in Oakland, California. It started out as her personal collections, she said, but it grew when other library staff members started submitting artifacts (人工制品), too.
“I put out a call to other library staff members, just to see if anybody had anything they’d be willing to share, and was just totally flooded with other people’s little collections of things they had found,” McKellar said. “So, as soon as I realized it wasn’t just me who had these things and enjoyed these things, it was an easy decision to keep it going.” McKellar has added 370 artifacts to the library’s online database — but she said she had a couple hundred more to upload.
The project is fairly new, but McKellar hopes it inspires people to dive into books at their local library, because you never know what you’ll find: maybe an old baby photo or a ticket to a 2004 Oakland A’s game.
“You just have a sense of shared space in a way. So even if you don’t know which book this thing came from, even if you’re not the one who found it, you still have a sense that the owner of this thing is in the same community as you or was in the same community as you, using the same resources,” McKellar said. “I think it is a way to sort of feel a connection with people who you don’t even know through these objects.”
1. What might book borrowers do to the books?| A．Find a new use for them. | B．Put some paper objects in them. |
| C．Leave them in public libraries. | D．Share them through an online project. |
| A．She set it up online. | B．She followed other librarians. |
| C．She got enough collections. | D．She was supported financially. |
| A．Enjoy reading in the library. | B．Draw inspiration from books. |
| C．Recognize what they have left. | D．Make a contribution to society. |
| A．A shared resource. | B．People’s reading habits. |
| C．Librarians’ attitude to books. | D．A bond with the community. |
If you want to make sure that you understand this story as fully as possible, you might consider printing the article and reading it on paper. That is one of the findings of a recent study of research done on the differences between paper and screen reading.
Virginia Clinton, a professor of Education, Health and Behavior at the University of North Dakota, carried out the research examination. She found what she called a “small but significant” difference in reading text from screen versus paper.
Clinton’s examination found that reading from paper generally led to better understanding and improved a person’s performance on tests connected to the reading material. And, she found no major differences in reading speed between the two.
Such differences were notable only when the reading materials were expositive texts — or explanatory and based on fact. Clinton said she found no major difference when it came to narrative, fictional texts.
Clinton also found that paper readers usually have a higher recognition of how well they have understood a text than screen readers. This skill is called metacognition.
Clinton and other researchers have found screen readers often believe they understand a text better than they really do. And, they are more likely than paper readers to overestimate how well they would do on a test of the materials they have read.
She said, “We think that we’re reading the story or the book better than we actually are. We think we understand what we are reading better than how we are actually reading.”
Yet, this inflated sense of understanding, or overconfidence, is especially common among screen readers.
There are many possible reasons for such findings. Overconfidence of screen readers, for example, could be the result of a distracted, less focused mind.
Clinton said, “If you are enjoying the reading process, you’re going to be more involved. You’re going to be paying better attention. Preferences are a key issue here.”
Although her findings may support paper reading over screen reading, Clinton says she does not believe screen reading should be avoided.
Instead, she points to new and developing tools that can be used to improve a screen reader’s understanding and focus.
| A．Several studies show that people often think of paper materials as more important and serious. |
| B．A less focused mind on books may find its way to focus on screen. |
| C．In other words, paper reading was found to be more efficient. |
| D．Reader preference is also important, she said. |
| E．That is to say, paper and screen reading have no effect on one’s getting information. |
| F．The word “cognition” means the mental action of increasing knowledge and understanding. |
